Sonia Noel’s new Black and White collection proved a big hit with the French patrons at the show ‘Kreyol Fashion Days’ in Guadeloupe, where she also had the opportunity to meet and dialogue with the illustrious French designer Jean Paul Gaultier.
Sonia says Gaultier was smitten with her signature braided hairstyle. “It was great meeting Jean Paul Gaultier and chatting with him for a while. His advice is to be true to yourself and never forget where you came from. Guyana had the smallest contingent there… but I represented well.”
She had previously shown at a charitable benefit in St Lucia supporting ‘Faces of Cancer’ under the patronage of Alvina Reynolds, the